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January 18th 05, 03:52 AM
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"T-bone" wrote in message 9.130... wrote in news:1105980741.679905.177450 @c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com: Can you receive cellular phone calls on a modified scanner? I thought with all phone being digital now you could not? There is very little activity in the old cell bands - What with analog roaming and such, there is still a little. So yes, people advertsing their scanners as UNBLOCKED !!!!! are really saying very little in practice - The only good reason to pay a premium to get one would be to bank on the possibility that some other service of interest will eventually move into this frequency region. WHAT the hell are you smoking dude? Do you even HAVE a scanner? or did mommy leave the computer turned on tonight? Digital sucks, just like FM never replaced AM radio, cause of the fast dropoff of signal over distance. There are more analog phones than ever in many towns, especially now that rates are low, lots more traffic. Go to a town of about 100,000 people that are spread out in the middle of Arizona or Texas or Utah. You will find a lot more people talking on cell phone frequencies than talking on the other public bands! |
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